Pertinax

Ok so now im INTJ ! its fun to be I N T J , I N T J . My goodness this stout is stronger than I thought.

A completely unforseen stroke of luck saw me with a day for selfish recreation, excellent weather and a very fast car.Dea Fortuna and Mercurius will recieve Libation. I offer you therefore Cilvrinum Fort (Chesters) , I have now pushed further east beyond Vindolanda toward Wallsend ( Segedunum). The weather was glorious, the museum of artefacts is crammed with retrieved inscriptions/altars and the fort bathhouse must have one of the best rustic views in the Empire. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...&cmd=si&img=723 Attested units -First Cohort Vangiones, ("The Augustan Wing" becasue of their virtue), the First Cohort Dalmatae , and VI Pia Fidelis (as builders, probably not the garrisson) and The Second Asturians (from Bremetenaccum). The Fort was built by order of Hadrian and continued in active use especially during the campaigns of Severus.I must explain it was a Hadrianic pre-wall fort (by a short head) that came to be built into the wall.This particular fort is considered to be the best preserved Cavalry fort in existence. The upload is so huge from this visit that I will have to place most offsite here: http://spaces.msn.com/triclinium/ Fortunately I shot the information labels attached to the altars and votive items so saving myself caption work. I will create a Cilvrinum dedicated gallery on the MSN blog , but look out for new items under "Bana", they are easy to spot-the sun is shining . I also have shots of the turrets to the West of Bana and updated photos from the Mithraic Temple at Procolita, which if you recall I was driven from by freezing hail.I was struck how very close together the turrets are, the whole barrier must have been alive with keen eyes watching out for movement.Check the misc Roman on msn for the turrets and Mithraium. and you may be asking, how did the Wall continue over the River at the foot of the fort site? A fortified bridge , rebuilt several times.I should add that the civilian vicus here was quite substantial, I assume the River crossing made this a focal point for movement.

INTP here -check. I think biologist/chemist covers the spec.

Poor sods! Nightsoil men were a well known urban scavenging force (with handcarts) in the late 19th and early 20th Century in the very town I post to you from .

I hoped you ,in particular, would be interested in the "ancient farm" part of this show, and its Brythonic leanings.

thank you once again.

Do you suggest Patrician Polyandry? http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbird.../Polyandry.html

Mercurius and Dea Fortuna.

Winnona Ryder-is that good? She looks fine but is she nutso?

Hers a link that may be of interest -Guy De La Bedoyere is a contributor: http://www.open2.net/romans/TV1scripts/scr1p1.htm

two dispartate quotes come readily to mind here: the first is a comment made to the late Mr Jack Hargreaves (if you check my msn blog you will get an idea of his id as a man of the land and rural arts) " man will come to rue the invention of the internal combustion engine more than any other thing he has turned his hand to " ;and there is a phrase in the Koran relating to persons who are unable to content themselves with the simple life lived in a particular place without " seeking into the bowels of the earth" and running hither and thither. Pliny was of an age when nature was still to be tamed and trodden down by technology , how odd that he ,even in that day should speak out so.